Condoleezza Rice, who served as the Secretary of State in the Bush administration, on Wednesday night delivered a hawkish speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Rice began her speech by recalling the September 11 terrorist...

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman questioned the budget math of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) in an appearance on Current TV Wednesday, saying he had duped conservatives and members of the media into thinking he has a serious budget plan when he...

TAMPA, Florida — Condoleezza Rice delivers a key foreign policy convention speech Wednesday, the lone hold-out from the Bush era to take part in the coronation of Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential candidate. George W. Bush’s...

WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama called for a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that made it easier for businesses to influence elections through large-scale donations. “Money has always been a factor in...

On the last post, I used some art that showed Chris Christie, that had been photoshopped to show him eating an ice cream sundae. I did not notice the alteration when I picked the picture, thinking it was a straightforward picture of Christie. I...

Cindy Jacobs, who claims to be a twenty-first century “respected prophet” and who co-founded a group that seeks to intercede on God’s behalf to, “[reform] the nations of the world back to a biblical worldview,” said...

At the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Wednesday night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) insisted that the health care reform law was unconstitutional, regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling. “When the Supreme Court upheld...

Kentucky state Sen. Perry Clark (D) has pre-filed legislation for the 2013 legislative session that would allow seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana. “This is not a conservative issue or a liberal issue; it’s an issue of compassion,”...

Yahoo! fired its Washington bureau chief Wednesday after he was caught on a live mic at the Republican convention joking that Republicans were, “happy to have a party with black people drowning.” David Chalian, the now former head of...

UPDATE: Join executive editor Megan Carpentier and Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte for a liveblog of the conventions at the bottom of this post for commentary, fact-checking and the occasional off-color joke. The Republican National Convention...

NEW YORK — Citigroup said Wednesday it had agreed to pay $590 million to settle a suit by investors who accused the bank of misleading them on its subprime mortgage-based security losses in 2007-2008. The agreement settled the four-year-old...

BERLIN — A court ruling in Germany banning circumcision is “extraordinarily dangerous” and should be clarified by the government before the end of the year, a rabbi from a top Jewish rights group said Wednesday. “We are very...

PARIS — A vast outcrop of the Arctic Siberian coast that had been frozen for tens of thousands of years is releasing huge carbon deposits as rising temperatures thaw parts of its coastline, a study warned Wednesday. The carbon, a potential...

FORT MEADE, Maryland — US military lawyers said Wednesday that Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of passing a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks, had breached security before and knew he was breaking the law. A pre-trial hearing for...